Not a Mac

I love using Macs, but I cannot get my desktop to not sleep, and when it sleeps, it disconnects its external hard drive (which is not bus powered, it has a dedicated power supply). The bus-powered SSD (Samsung T7) is fine though. I don’t know if it’s an Apple thing or an ARM64 thing, but I’m looking for a low-end 8th-gen Intel box that’s limited to Win10 to put headless Linux on it, and terminal in from my Mac for server/homelab stuff. Macs are good for Unix type stuff since that’s what they’re based on (since OS X) but they don’t seem too good as servers.

Could be PEBCAK but I dunno.

Let’s be absolutely clear, they didn’t just kill third-party apps.

And to be fair, third party apps often bypassed their ads. So Reddit had a legitimate grievance there. The apps were contributing nothing, were collecting money from Reddit users, and the app I’m going to talk about, Apollo, actually had a recurring subscription if you weren’t one of the first ones to buy it.

So Apollo was kind of the big dog and so Reddit basically went after them primarily. After the conversation did not go well for Reddit, Reddit’s CEO started telling everyone that the Apollo dev tried to extort Reddit. The Apollo dev did make a joke about money changing hands, but he absolutely did not extort Reddit, and he brought the receipts. He transcribed the call… for those who didn’t have time to listen to the actual recording, which he also shared.

With a big pie in their face, Reddit reacted by killing third-party apps entirely. And it was mostly based on a lie.

Reddit is run by the Epstein class anyway. Heck, I was banned just for suggesting longer prison terms for people who prey upon children. I guess they took that as a threat against their leadership? And/or certain politicians who they support (or who support them)?

Doesn’t look like an issue if you pull straight in. Pull all the way up and you can have a guest over, though they’ll probably stick out into the sidewalk a bit. Maybe not the best place to host a gentleman/lady caller, but humans gonna human.

What I have is a Mac mini (M2 Pro, 16GB RAM) and a MacBook Air (M2 base, 16GB RAM). The desktop (the mini) would be absolutely overkill, but I don’t want it doing a bunch of stuff when my wife and I are trying to actively use it as a server.

The last Intel box I had shit the bed and I no longer have it. I had a 4th gen Xeon (1231-v3) with 16GB DDR4 and a 3GB Radeon 280. If I still had that tower, I’d start with that for sure.

Fair. But, in your/their world, how does one seek the information? If they aren’t allowed to ask, should they then just ask AI, or read an article otherwise written from Reddit/forum posts?

To ask it another way: How do you justify a person being curious and asking in good faith if an AI could just farm the post later? I think, but I’m not sure, that Lemmy has some kinds of safeguards against that? I know with Reddit it was wide open. I used it for the better part of a decade, wrote long-winded posts full of information; I know AI was trained in part based on my posts (among millions of others).

Thanks. The more I see, the more I realise I should just leave the AI stuff out. AI and gaming were outlier possibilities anyway, though I’m way more interested in gaming than AI. Right there with you on AI ethics. I don’t like seeing them steal art and rip off artists, but they can be good at tracking down solutions on various forums. At least, they do it faster. But it sounds like running one might be outside my budget, so I’m more interested in running services, and light/classic gaming, since I have an Xbox (Series X).

If I was looking for content for a blog or a video, would it be such a bad thing? Getting a lot of good information. Not sure what’s wrong with that.

Thanks. I took note the first time I read that, but I appreciate the emphasis.

Yeah, I wasn’t targeting Intel specifically, that’s just what most/all the refurbished SFF PCs I’ve looked at have been running, and I know Intel is good for HEVC transcoding.

Heard good things about proxmox. What do you mean it’s Debian? It’s an OS? I thought it was some kind of VPN thing that gets your services out onto the web so you can access them remotely or something like that.

I’m inclined to agree I don’t need a DE (desktop environment, though I suppose I’m the only one who had to think about that for a second as the new guy) but I was also interested in checking out some Steam games. Would that be something I could spin up separately (Steam via Proton) or would that be better as its own project with its own goals?

14th gen is kind of a price jump, but if I’m only targeting 16GB RAM (per another reply), it might be doable. Having my Mac just convert the AV1 to HEVC (or just avoiding AV1 entirely) sounds like it would make more sense. I’m seeing a lot of refurb deals on 11th gen i5s and that’s what I was thinking.

What are LXCs?

I vaguely understand what docker is. I’ve tried to set it up on my Mac and had no luck getting it going. My understanding is that if you want to move your jellyfin install to another machine, it’s easy to just grab the whole container rather than hunting down jellyfin’s settings spread throughout the disk. I’ve moved a Plex installation and it’s not fun. It’s not hard but it’s not fun. So yes, it would be beneficial to be able to just move a container from machine to machine if need be.

I’m not new, but I shouldn’t consider myself any more advanced than a new/beginner level user. I remember liking Red Hat back when that was a home user distro. I didn’t much like Fedora. I have used Mint and I like it well enough. I also like Ubuntu. Heard good things about one called Cachy.

Thanks. It sounds like the AI stuff will push my budget over what I’m comfortable with and everything else I want will run well under.

Does this affect people on modern platforms (Mac/Linux) or just Windows? This is the kind of thing that is making Windows get left behind.

The same could be said for TVs. “Why does the TV need apps if I’m just gonna connect an Apple TV box to it?”

It’s nice to see the picture. I’m sure there are/were some pretty cool people who worked on Word and Excel, and their iWork equivalents as well. I use iWork (though I don’t think Apple calls it that anymore) on my Macs and iPhone, though not very often. iWork is completely different… so you have MS Office which we all know. Then there’s Open and Libre Office and those are kinda like Office '97 looking. (Not to disparage them! Not everyone likes the ribbon. I never minded it though. And if you don’t like the ribbon, Office XP was kinda peak.) Well, iWork is completely alien to both of them, with most stuff being to the right of your workspace rather than above. It’s weird. I can kinda dig it but I don’t really like it, especially since they shoehorned the dumb Apple Intelligence into it. I have tried LibreOffice on my MacBook (and I’ve used it on PCs as well) and it’s kinda just fine.

If I had a preference, it would actually be MS Office because I have so much experience with it, but I’ll never trust Microsoft with my data again since they inexplicably wiped my entire OneDrive storage, Office files and all, with no warning. Their site shows my OneDrive as empty and the links were all clouds on my Macs (not synced to device). Microsoft kinda just said “fuck you in particular.” I do very well with Office at work. I’ll never use it at home again. Looking at the options that are free to me — iWork and LibreOffice — I suppose I slightly prefer Libre? I’ve been using Ellipsus for like a Google Docs alternative though (it’s an anti-AI creative writing platform, I just really dig their mission statement).

Look into “the small web”. You can get a site that is kinda like a MySpace profile, but you have more control.

Looked into this, it looks awesome. Plex is meeting my needs and I own a Plex Pass, but if I didn’t, I’d probably be running this. The server works on Macs, too. Not all of them do.

Unnecessary. It adds compatibility with another service. I looked into it a few weeks ago. I forget the details, but I looked into this and thought, oh I’ll never need that. The $5.99 gives you all the features you need for all devices.

Right, I’m saying it should be both or neither. The argument Nintendo is making is the same argument the US government should use to deny Nintendo.

I’m no lawyer, but it sounds like they’re kind of right? It’s a case of “you’re right but you’re still an arsehole.”

However, I think if Nintendo isn’t going to refund consumers, they have no business seeking refunds from the government.

I never really thought the lawsuit against Nintendo had much merit. If costs go up, so too must prices, and demand goes down. People who support the price increases and continue to buy at the jacked-up prices are sending the message that price has not affected (their) demand. I do not believe they should be made whole because they are not out anything. They saw the price and they chose to pay it. Like everyone who buys a Steam Deck post-increase, or Xbox, or PlayStation. The Steam Machine was always gonna cost about $1000, that’s been expected since it announced, and it hasn’t increased in price (AFAIK).

But, again, not a lawyer.

However, I do firmly believe that if Nintendo is not going to make consumers whole, it similarly does not deserve to get made whole. For the same reason. Those tariffs were the cost of doing business. And they chose to do that business, and they did so… by raising prices. So it seems if you can’t have one increase without the other… you can’t have one refund… without the other.